For the eleventh year running the Maldon Beer Festival was another great success.
The four-day event attracted a crowd of 1,500 people who drank their way through more than 4,000 pints of beer.
The annual festival, organised by CAMRA (the Campaign for Real Ale), ended at the Town Hall on Saturday. SEE PICTURES FROM THE EVENT HERE
On offer to its eager visitors was a range of more than 50 different real ales, ciders and perry, many of which had not featured in Maldon previously.
The festival attracts suppliers from all over the UK as well as having a strong local presence.
Maldon MP John Whittingdale attended the event and said that the festival is always popular in the area, which is home to three independent breweries. Organiser Rob Longley described the three-day event as a "total sell-out".
On Saturday evening the festival also provided its visitors with some live music.
While pint glasses were raised the crowd was kept entertained by Medicine, an Essex-based Celtic rock group.
Mr Longley was very impressed with the "brilliant band that held the crowd together" and he is already looking forward to next year when the Maldon Beer Festival will once again take place in April.
